For California, A Baffling Toll Rises Yet Again.

The article reports on the rise in death toll from mass shootings in California. The gun violence, which includes a farmworker community in San Francisco and a Los Angeles suburb, posed as a challenge for the state following rainstorms and flooding. Talks reemerged in Washington to pursue new gun measures, including legislation introduced by Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, to reinstate the already expired assault rifle ban.